The MSM - where Trump research and tea leaves meet!
Posted on 12/27/2017 7:21:51 AM PST by Golden Eagle
President Trump reportedly blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for Republican Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama earlier this month because his departure from the Senate to lead the Justice Department necessitated the race.
Trump lamented the loss of the Senate seat to the Democrats and partly put the blame on Sessions for taking up the position at the Justice Department, which triggered the special election, according to a report from the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Trump has long expressed his concerns with Sessions, going as far as to say in July that he would have not hired him if he knew Sessions was going to recuse himself from the investigations into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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I read the report. I must have missed the part where president Trump partly blamed sessions.
A lesson learned for GOP Presidents going forward: Do NOT pluck a GOP Senator for a cabinet position, no matter how “safe” that seat appears to be. Senators are not natural leaders anyway. There’s plenty of talent out there to choose from, aside from people in the legislative branch.
Trump selected him to be AG.
Serving in the Senate qualifies you for basically NOTHING.
Then you, as usual, don’t know what you are talking about.
Yes, what you said. This is the MSM making stuff up again. Too bad POTUS seems to be about the only one to call them on this crap.
Sounds like fake news.
Relax, we'll fix it. (Republican leadership caused this)
Alabama won't tolerate a Democrat senator....And, BTY, Richard Shelby (R) (ex-Democrat) is toast too.
In four years we'll have two new conservative senators.
He’s doing just fine as AG. All the USSC case wins (particularly immigration) are attributable to Sessions.
The MSM - where Trump research and tea leaves meet!
Jeff Sessions Refuses To Say Whether Or Not He Voted For Roy Moore In Alabama
http://uproxx.com/news/jeff-sessions-roy-moore-vote/
I’m unconvinced that AL is still reliably Republican.
Fake news. Illogical nonsense. Trump selected Sessions.
FAKE NEWS
Very possibly true, however, is anyone still reliably Republican? because the truth of the matter is that the Republicans are not reliable. They have lied to us this entire time.
..except a lifetime retirement pension and free, top-of-the-line, healthcare.
;-)
Here is is:
Exactly one week before the raid, Trump sat in the Oval Office with reporters from The New York Times and, with little prompting, veered into an attack on his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Trump blasted Sessions, once one of his closest allies, for recusing himself from the Russia probe, believing that helped lead to Mueller’s appointment.
Trump continued his assault in a series of tweets in which he called Sessions “weak” and “beleaguered.” Privately, he discussed firing Sessions, but was met with a wave of resistance from his advisers. Some warned it would worsen the Russia probe, while Bannon told the president it would hurt with his base supporters, who loved Sessions’ tough-on-crime approach at the Justice Department.
Kelly, in his first weekend on the job, called Sessions to assure him his position was safe. But the rift between Trump and Sessions still has not healed. Recently, Trump bemoaned the Republicans’ loss in a special election in Alabama and in part blamed Sessions, whose departure from the Senate to head to Justice necessitated the election.
https://apnews.com/0d5f38137f91414186b68e53afbe8081
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